Petition is successful with 11,577 signatures
To: Simon Roberts, Giles Hurley, Roger Burnley, Christian Hartnagel, David Potts
Supermarket CEOs, hand back the cash!
We did it! We got supermarkets to do the right thing and hand back their business rates relief back to the government.
In total, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Lidl, Asda, Morrisons, and Aldi, are returning £2bn in relief money. Though this money should never have been given to them in the first place, our win proves that by piling on the pressure, we can hold these big businesses to account.
And that's not all: we've also influenced how other big retailers handle their relief money. This is huge. By showing support for this campaign, you've played an important role in how we recover from this crisis.
Now that we've had £2bn handed back, we need to see this money distributed to the right causes. When we clapped for carers and other essential workers, we weren’t thinking of supermarket CEOs or shareholders, but the thousands of people working on shop floors around the country who took the greatest risks to keep the rest of us safe and well-supplied.
